Tag Archives: Transportation

Welcome to a new work week, road warriors. Here’s a rundown of news from around the country affecting how you travel for work. Compiled by David Royse | LedeTree MASSIVE EXPANSION COMING AT O’HARE – DOZENS OF NEW GATES Do you already cringe when you learn you have to connect …

Virgin Hyperloop One said Tuesday it has done a “pre-feasability study” and has a framework agreement with local governments in India’s Maharashtra state to create a fully electric hyperloop between Mumbai and Pune. LedeTree The plan would be to have the system running by 2025. It could carry up to …

The technology that will allow cars to be autonomous isn’t quite road ready yet. But much of it is already on the road. David Royse | LedeTree Some of the technology that is allowing engineers to design autonomous cars that will soon be in general use is already more and …

As talk increases about flying cars being part of the solution to city transportation needs in the near future, it might occur to some that a flying car is really just a new version of a helicopter. So who better to get in on the race to get people into …

The Lede, for Jan. 8, 2018 By David Royse Welcome to tomorrow, today. New industries, ideas, big stories about stuff that you haven’t thought much about, but you should, because it is increasingly going to be part of our world. Good morning, and welcome to your Monday. State legislators are …

UPS said today it has ordered 125 new fully-electric semi trucks from Tesla, part of a move to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions from its ground operations by 12 percent by 2025. LedeTree “For more than a century, UPS has led the industry in testing and implementing new technologies for …

Sacramento and nearby Davis are Getting an Electric Bike-Share System Josh Cohen | Next City Davis, California, has long held a special place among U.S. bicycle cities. In 1967, it was the first to paint official bike lanes. It has since built bike infrastructure on 76 percent of its streets, …

New images take you behind the wheel of what the new self-driving car test track being built in Polk County, Florida will look like. Veronica Brezina | Orlando Business Journal The test track, dubbed SunTrax, is a 2.25-mile oval track on a 400-acre site in Auburndale and will test autonomous …

Ridesharing company Uber has agreed to buy 24,000 Volvo XC90 SUVs as it seeks to create a fleet of driverless vehicles. LedeTree Uber said it will buy the vehicles starting in 2019 in a deal reported by The Financial Times to be worth close to $1.4 billion. The agreement is …

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